Statistics

68% of evangelical Christians say that they would support immigration reforms that would both increase border security and establish a process so that immigrants present unlawfully in the U.S. could earn permanent legal status and eventually citizenship if they paid a fine and met other qualifications

In 2015, most immigrants lived in just 20 major metropolitan areas, with the largest populations in New York, Los Angeles and Miami. These top 20 metro areas were home to 27.9 million immigrants, or 65% of the nation’s total. )

Immigrants convicted of a crime made up the minority of deportations in 2015, the most recent year for which statistics by criminal status are available. Of the 333,000 immigrants deported in 2015, some 42% had criminal convictions and 58% were not convicted of a crime. From 2001 to 2015, a majority (60%) of immigrants deported have not been convicted of a crime.

(37%) of the refugees who were admitted into the United States in fiscal 2016 were religious minorities in their home countries. Of those, 61% were Christians, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of data from the State Department’s Refugee Processing Center.

Undocumented immigrants nationwide pay on average an estimated 8 percent of their incomes in state and local taxes (this is their effective state and local tax rate). To put this in perspective, the top 1 percent of taxpayers pay an average nationwide effective tax rate of just 5.4 percent.”

Granting legal status to all undocumented immigrants in the United States as part of a comprehensive immigration reform and allowing them to work legally would increase their state and local tax contributions by an estimated $2.1 billion a year

More than six in ten (61%) Americans say immigrants living in the U.S. illegally should be allowed a way to become citizens, provided they meet certain requirements. Roughly one in five (17%) say they would prefer illegal immigrants to be eligible for permanent residency status but not citizenship

“After Arizona passed a series of laws(SB 1070), that state’s undocumented population dropped by 40 percent between 2007 and 2012, which reduced its economy by 2 percent a year and depressed employment by 2.5 percent”
“Alabama passed a similar law (HB 56) in 2011, which caused a dramatic slowdown amid a worker shortage that reduced its economy by an estimated $11 billion”

There are 488 people groups in the United States and 85 of them are unreached.

Joshua Project, 2017

Researchers asked evangelicals to list which factor has most influenced their beliefs about immigration. About one in 10 chose the Bible, and only 2 percent named their church…’The sad part of this research on immigration is that American evangelicals are more influenced by the media than by their Bibles and their churches combined.’